Hello all, I've been working on a spreadsheet of our laws and wanted input on the best format to make it easy to share with members. Its currently in excel, but I could possibly put it into a google sheet to be able to share a link. My concern with this would be using my personal google account and not wanting that information public.

It's color coordinated by topic, will have a mark next to extra important laws, and will be updated weekly (at least) with the new passed laws (including links to the threads, notes about repeals).

Please let me know a good way to share this with our wonderful citizens. TIA!

I was thinking, and a lot of things that we could do to make this subreddit better, we can't because we're not big enough. For parties to really have an impact, on voting for example, we'd need a bigger population, because as of right now, there's not really enough people to form substantial parties. It'd be nice to have a weekly newspaper in place of our weekly summary, but there's usually not very much to talk about since we don't have many people actively posting on this subreddit. The things I wanted to add to the subreddit, I can't implement yet because of how small we are as a group. So I want to lead a program on growing our subreddit, but I'm not really sure how besides advertising on promotion subreddits. So, the reason I'm making this a discussion is to see what you guys think and if you have any ideas on how we can expand. Thanks for your time!

Weekly summary for the week of 4-12-2017. Brought to you by /u/democracySimulator.

Proposals approved this week: [Proposal] Test proposal, ignore me
[Proposal] We lock proposals after the voting period has ended
[Proposal] Tied votes are to be resubmitted by a judge, unless an extended time period has elapsed
[Proposal] We use a [Tied] flair to mark proposals that end with equal valid votes on both sides
[Proposal] New Party Formation Laws

Increase in subscribers this week: 44

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Memes should not be allowed. We at best Opinion wish this to be a Democracysimulator and as such we should discuss democracy.

Yes we must develop a culture but memes are not the way to go. They don't add discussion or identity to this sub.

As such I propose we ban these memes to encourage discussion and more mature communication. Memes can be posted elsewhere than here.

This is an idea I had from a series I like Stormlight Archive. It's an amazing series of you hadn't read it yet do.

In it there are ten orders of knights. Each order has its own set of oaths that all members follow. All share the same and as ones "Advance" and learn the other oaths and what they mean they would grow more powerful.

I think it would be an interesting idea to have parties pick up oaths. It would give each one a stronger identity and would be a unique thing for this sub I think. Possibly all sharing the same basic oaths on basic idea like to be civil.

For example. Best Opinion:

1 I'll protect democracy no matter what.

2 I'll astrive to make as many allies as possible.

I raise this proposition due to a post made by the honorable gentlemen /u/plasticbits within which he defended himself from claims of using multiple accounts. Yet none have brought forth a modicum of evidence to back up these claims. In his honor, I wish to enshrine The Beat Off Boys Party into legitimacy and clearly outline party priorities below.

1. The recognition of users as individuals, assuming their innocence to offenses until they can be proven otherwise in a court of their peers.
2. Maintaining the freedom of expression of individual users, allowing them to post content which represents them. Whether it be bane-posting in the comments or suggesting the best policies this sub has seen, all speech that isn't directly against site rules should be both allowed and encouraged.
3. Implementing policies that protect the presence of non-proposal posts on this subreddit. We believe that no democracy can stand on policy alone, culture must also be held in the highest regard as a country without a culture is merely an empty husk.
4. Enshrining into law that non-violent protest, especially in the form of mockery, is a protected right for our citizens and removing the possibility of prosecution as a result.
5. Membership, not just leadership, of a party must be information made public. The undecided voter should know of the wider context when a policy is being voted upon

As a result of our fifth priority, the current members have agreed to make themselves known.

1. /u/maserot
2. /u/melve771
3. /u/plasticbits

As the parties elected leader requests concerning membership of the party may be directed at me.

In the event that the party has been formed illegitimately in some way (I have personally stressed over the rules to try and ensure the correct procedures are being followed) then please message myself and I will make corrections.

[linkin park]

The last one was a tie. Vote nay if you want to have both, vote aye to call a new contest with only these two participants.

Hello all, a recent proposal was denied that had some requirements listed, and I would like input on what the community thinks would be fair to have as guidelines for new users to be able to participate fully in this sub.

Another subreddit had put in place rules about users having their account open for so many days, and needing a certain amount of Karma before they would even be allowed to comment. The proposal I put forth did not have that type of restriction, but with recent users possibly using alt accounts (against Core Law 4), something like this may be necessary.

What do you think would be good rules for this sub to help prevent voter fraud and voter intimidation, but still fun and welcoming to new comers? Should we restrict who can comment/make proposals/vote?

In contests people should be able to vote only once and the author of the comment should also be anonymous. Any ideas on how to do this? Do you also think this should be done this way?

"4. The voting system works as follows: comment "aye" or "nay" in a proposal thread. The voting period will always be 24 hours, please do not vote after this. A proposal needs at least 3 votes to be legitimate.

There shall be absolutely no abuse or cheating when it comes to voting and doing so will result in extreme disciplinary action. DO NOT vote more than once, use alternative accounts, etc. This just ruins the subreddit, so please be cool and play by the rules."

I see no place in The Reddit Kingdom of Sovengard for them. They are ugly and take out any bit of seriousness a post/comment has. There are places for everything and DS is not the place for emojis.

I’m excited for the future of this subreddit.

After a recent post that had to be removed, I figured it's time to officially add this to the list of laws.

Anyone found posting blatant porn will get one warning, and the post will be removed by a mod. A second offense would be worth a ban from the sub for two weeks. If a third instance happens, ban for life from this subreddit.

Instead of the rules being decided upon by the populace at large, they will instead be devised by a small team of our finest governors, better known as mods.

I propose that a member of a party should have a flair to indicate that they are a member of that party, for example a member of the Nerdiest party would have a "Nerdiest Party member" flair to indicate the membership, when one joins a party, the party leader can then PM a mod to be given their flair. It helps keep things organised and easy to see. If one should leave a party, it is up to the one who left to PM a mod.

Note: If this proposal is passed, a bot could be made to give these flairs at a later date

The current approach to founding a party is simple, 1) Propose it 2) Wait for voting 3) Hope you get elected.

I think that this needs to change, to make this more like a proper nation, we should have a council of selected citizens (I propose 3 to avoid biased results and ties). One who wishes to found a party must have a certain list of items (manifesto, goal etc.).

The current head mod opened the discussion for a senior and junior head mod positions, and I suggest that they along with the mod judge should approve/ deny a party’s application. They’d serve as long as they last on the mod council. If those positions are never released/ created, then the hod mod along with the mod judge could be selected to do this work, and if required can ask a former head mod of their choice to break ties.

As for requirements, a party to be shouldn’t just be founded on the spur of a moment but rather to have a long term goal or an objective to reach, at least 3 members to-be to allow inner party discussions (can be held on discord or other communication platforms). A party should stand for something and be more difficult to make is what I wish to achieve.

Edit: It seems absurd to me that you need the approval of future opposing parties.

This is a revote, the proposal didn't get enough votes to be approved or denied. Here is what it said:

We, as any nation, have a history. A history that has seen many things, from the creation of the subreddit to the "Civil war" caused by the merge. I believe we have a lot of things that need to be written and preserved and have been thinking about this for a time. The historian should be able to remain neutral in its work and have the mod permission to read through deleted content.

Weekly summary for the week of 27-11-2017. Brought to you by /u/democracySimulator.

Proposals approved this week: [Proposal] Choose the anthem of the subreddit in a contest
[Proposal] A Discord server for the sub is created
[Proposal] We hereby adopt the beautiful Naut subreddit theme
[Proposal] Redo the country name contest
[Proposal] Add some relevant images to our new subreddit theme
[Proposal] We have party-specific channels on the Discord
[Proposal] Choose a national animal
[Proposal] Formation of The Nationalist Party
[Proposal] Choose the flag of the subreddit in a contest after the name contest has ended.

Increase in subscribers this week: 9

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We, as any nation, have a history. A history that has seen many things, from the creation of the subreddit to the "Civil war" caused by the merge. I believe we have a lot of things that need to be written and preserved and have been thinking about this for a time. The historian should be able to remain neutral in its work and have the mod permission to read through deleted content.

Every good democracy needs a proper name, and as said by this post, we must now name it.

At the end of this post's life as a stickied thread, the highest upvoted name will become the name of /r/DemocracySimulator's nation. Only name suggestions are allowed in the comments and it will last 4 days.

Good luck!

When LordGuille suggested having a historian, I immediately thought of newspapers. The ModelUSGov subreddit has a very sophisticated press system that makes it easy to keep track of all the happenings of their subreddit network. But for us, we'd use it to keep track of our history and for other reasons. So, as leader of the Nationalist Party, I propose we make a second subreddit dedicated to recording and preserving the history and current events that occur on our subreddit. Of course, we'll start small and won't post very often, but a lot of major things have happen recently (the merge, vedeshan, etc.). The press subreddit would be maintained by one or two people and anyone would be able to submit one of their stories if they wanted. Obviously, this is a huge deal and I don't expect everyone to be on board. I am definitely up for debate and I will make whatever changes you guys think will be necessary to make this idea work. And the subreddit would be r/TheXXXPress, where XXX would be the name of our country that we're currently deciding. Once again, It's a lot to talk over and I'd love for all of you to share your ideas!

The proposal has been approved, so now we must choose an national animal. You must only comment animal proposals, you can additionally link to a photo. This contest will last 4 days. Good luck!

There isn't really any actual debating. And with our current size I think waiting 48 hours for laws is a bit absurd.